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UBM TECH EVENTS

Enterprise Connect 2015March 16-19, 2015 | Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL Join the entire enterprise communications and collaboration ecosystem at Enterprise Connect, now in its 25th year. Attendees get the information they need to make informed decisions about how to migrate, design and implement the right communications and collaboration products, services, software and architecture. With over 60 conference sessions, 175+ exhibitors, leading keynotes and numerous networking opportunities Enterprise Connect is the don't miss event of the year. Register today with Discount Code INFORMATIONWEEK to save $100 off Entire Event and Tue-Thu Conference passes or for a Free Expo Plus pass.Register Now!

Black Hat Asia 2015March 24-27, 2015 | Singapore, China Black Hat is returning to Asia again in 2015, and we have quite an event in store. Here the brightest professionals and researchers in the industry will come together for a total of four days--two days of deeply technical hands-on Trainings, followed by two days of the latest research and vulnerability disclosures at our Briefings. Register Now!

Interop Las Vegas 2015April 27-May 1, 2015 | Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las VegasIT Pros come to Interop Las Vegas to see the future of technology, the outlook for IT, and the possibilities of what it means to be in IT. In 2015, Interop Las Vegas features three unique conference programs to serve the needs of the entire IT team, an Expo with more than 300 exhibitors, and lots of networking opportunities. The event happens April 27 to May 1, 2015. Register with Discount Code MPEVLIST for $200 off Total Access & Conference Passes. Register Now!

Cloud Connect @ Interop Las VegasWednesday, April 27-May 1, 2015 | Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las VegasCloud Connect @ Interop offers expert insight on how to leverage the cloud's abundance of resources and applications to outmaneuver, out-innovate, and outpace the competition. Join cloud users and industry leaders from April 27 to May 1 as they explore the latest developments in application and workload migration, emerging technologies such as Docker, and trends such as DevOps. Find out how the next generation of cloud computing will liberate your applications.Register with Discount Code MPEVLIST for $200 off Total Access & Conference Passes.Register Now!

InformationWeek ConferenceApril 27-28, 2015 | Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las VegasThe InformationWeek Conference offers two days of high-level presentations, education and knowledge-sharing on the pain points and innovations in evolving a digital business. The conference, held April 27-28, 2015 at Mandalay Bay Resort alongside Interop Las Vegas, features sessions led by world-class CIOs, thought leaders and other experts and offers the opportunity to network with 250 C-Level Executive and Senior IT peers. The final day of the event culminates with the prestigious Elite 100 Awards Ceremony and Gala. Special for InformationWeek readers: save $200 with Discount Code MPEVLISTRegister Now!

Dark Reading Cyber Security Crash CourseWednesday, April 29, 2015 | Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las VegasJoin Dark Reading for a special one-day event, the Dark Reading Cyber Security Crash Course at Interop Las Vegas 2015. On Wednesday, April 29 at Mandalay Bay Resort, Dark Reading editors and a group of top cyber security experts will offer a crash course in what IT needs to know about data security and the dangers faced by their organizations.Register with Discount Code MPEVLIST to save $100.Register Now!

WEBINARS

With patient engagement strategies at the top of everyone's priority list, healthcare organizations must implement the right technologies and processes to meet the challenge. Proactive multi-channel notifications for appointment and refill reminders, patient follow-up, physician scheduling, and streamlining everyday population management processes are just the beginning. Attend this webinar to learn how to:

Merge contact center initiatives and business goals to ease the patient experience

Improve patient relationships through transparency for providers and payers

Create effective internal teams to assist with patient strategies

Use the technology you already have to make simple, yet effective, improvements

Register for this webinar to get a firsthand look at what patient engagement strategies mean for the future of contact and service centers. For many, it starts with learning how to make the most of what you have, while preparing for the future.

Enterprises are adopting private clouds in large numbers, according to UBM Tech's new survey, The State of Private Clouds. Sixty percent of IT decision makers say they run one or more private clouds within their organizations. However, the survey also reveals some problems associated with these private cloud projects. If you are running a private cloud today, or looking at 2nd or 3rd generation deployments, you can learn how to avoid typical pitfalls and accelerate cloud deployments by considering next-generation private cloud solutions. This includes training and services to complement your staff and speed integration & enable interoperability management of your current/future infrastructure solutions. Attend this webinar to learn how to:

Uncover 7 ways to fast track private cloud deployments today

Complement your staff and speed integration

Enable interoperability management of your infrastructure solutions

Join this webinar to learn how open standards and best practices fulfill the potential of private clouds and how to avoid derailments of first generation deployments.

Tuesday December 16, 2014 -- 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time -- 60 minutes SanDisk’s unique intellectual property and industry-leading products can help you to accelerate your Oracle Database and all the applications that depend on it. Learn from the industry leader how flash solutions can not only accelerate your applications, but save you money as well. Attend this webinar to learn how to:

Optimize flash storage technologies for Oracle databases, including how to take advantage of new Oracle 12c features

Lower the costs of delivering application performance to your end users and customers

Improve application performance and application response times with flash-based storage

Streamline your Oracle RAC installations

Register for this webinar to learn how to accelerate your current business performance and enable new business opportunities, while saving money and getting more value from your existing investments in servers and Oracle Database licenses. Register Now!

Big Data Strategies Revealed for Federal AgenciesSponsor: DellThursday, December 11, 2014 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes As federal agencies amass and analyze exponentially larger volumes of information, the role of Big Data is rising in importance. The need to make effective, fact-based decisions using this data has become critical to serving citizens and meeting the mission objectives of agencies.Attend this webinar to learn:

How to decide where you should store and analyze Big Data (on premises, cloud, or hybrid environments?)

How to build the optimal software architecture to process Big Data

Which key talents, competencies and expertise should be nurtured and developed to support Big Data operations

Register for this webinar to explore these key practical issues that can help federal IT and LoB officials plan, develop and implement effective Big Data initiatives. Register Now!

Simplify the Way You Use the CloudSponsor: InfosysCloud computing has reached a tipping point for enterprises. Did you know that 81% of the companies we surveyed recently said that they are either using or planning to use mission-critical apps on the Cloud within the next two years? Clearly, the Cloud adoption is no longer driven by cost savings, but by agility, simplicity, and a unified view of IT - according to the Infosys study - "Simplify and Innovate the Way You Consume Cloud", a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Infosys, October 2014 This Study also reveals that enterprises are struggling to bring together all their cloud services, from IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public and private clouds to traditional IT. There are challenges in terms of user experience and consumption of cloud. So, how do you solve these problems?

Well, attend this webinar to learn from the results of this cloud computing survey and why you should: - Prioritize developing a comprehensive cloud strategy - Work with a cloud implementation provider - Bring together all of your cloud services Register for this webinar to learn why you should consider a cloud ecosystem hub to show all of your cloud assets from one perspective.

Introducing FX2 Architecture - the convergence revolutionAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: Dell and IntelWould you like to know about an evolutionary converged architecture that combines the density and innovative agility of hyper-scale computing with the ease of use and efficiency of advanced management technologies, for your data center?

PaaS: How to Complete the Vision of VirtualizationAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: ActiveStateVirtualization has had an enormous impact on enterprise IT. It has enabled greater utilization of infrastructure resources, portability of execution environments, and better infrastructure economics. The rise of cloud computing has further extended the benefits of virtualization. However, neither has accelerated the development, deployment, and management of applications, which is where all the value of IT resides. Platform as a Service (PaaS) represents the future of virtualization and cloud computing, and delivers on the promise of application value.

Register for this webinar to understand the advantages of the latest Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor technology that drives the performance of your environment, and Dell server innovation and services that drive application performance to new levels, reduce management complexity and take the risk out of migrating siloed RISC and UNIX systems into open X86 technologies.

How to Rescue Your Stranded Storage CapacityAn InformationWeek Government WebinarTraditionally, with the storage array forced to provide both capacity and performance, the age-old method of storage design is to size for the peak load. However, this approach results in over provisioned storage infrastructure with capacity deployed and sitting idle.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Add storage capacity to address storage performance is an inefficient and often ineffective solution - Overprovision storage to achieve performance results in “stranded capacity” - Gain performance optimally by accelerating I/O closest to the app/VM at the server tier to decouple performance and capacity

Register for this webinar to learn how this “stranded capacity” can be rescued and fully utilized with a decoupled architecture where the performance requirements are handled at the server tier.

Your Big Data Infrastructure: Are You Building Something You Can't Manage?An InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: CA TechnologiesTo gain the benefits of Big Data, companies like yours are building Big Data "pipelines" that include data ingest and integration, analytic engines, visualization tools and more. This essential Big Data infrastructure is typically cobbled together using technology from multiple vendors, including both cloud and on-premise components.Unfortunately, such infrastructure is almost always built with an exclusive focus on immediate price/performance-rather than long-term manageability and sustainability.

How to Deploy Fast, Cost-Effective VDI – Virtual DesktopsAn InformationWeek WebinarCompanies are deploying End User Computing (EUC) or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to increase productivity, provide improved security and support different types of end user devices. However, there are two pressing business concerns: the high cost of deploying virtual desktops effectively across the enterprise; and, the usability of the virtual desktops compared to client devices users already have.

Register for this webinar to gain a good understanding of the top issues of EUC/VDI deployment. Attendees will leave the webcast with the options to start their EUC/VDI deployment with a POC or a solution that is scalable and provide fast, cost-effective virtual desktops for their users.

Getting IT and Developers on the Same Big Data PageAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: MapRDevelopers are essential to any big data strategy. Just try doing in-depth analysis without some custom coding. However, dev skills can be a scarce resource, and these pros often find working on big data frustrating, because the inherent volume, velocity, and variety make development difficult.

Attendees at this InformationWeek Webcast will learn: - How to spot relevant developer expertise and get these people excited about analytics. - Ways to maximize the quality of big-data analyses. - Tips to streamline difficult big data tasks around velocity, volume, and variety.

Register for this webinar to learn how to accelerate your current business performance and enable new business opportunities, while saving money and getting more value from your existing investment in servers and SQL Server licenses

How to Accelerate SQL Server Performance and Lower TCOAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: SanDiskIt's time to learn how flash solutions deliver the breakthrough performance you need to realize the power of SQL Server 2014. Faster insights are critical to businesses large and small, and through this webinar, you'll understand how flash solutions increase data warehouse speed and simplify management, while reducing capital and operational costs.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Dramatically improve your SQL Server platform and application performance - Support more order processing with fast, consistent OLTP performance - Deliver business insights faster with enterprise storage and SQL Server in-memory data warehouse - See how other enterprises are delivering better business results leveraging flash with their SQL platforms

Register for this webinar to learn how to accelerate your current business performance and enable new business opportunities, while saving money and getting more value from your existing investment in servers and SQL Server licenses

E-Discovery & FOIA Access: Is Cloud the Key?An InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: DLT / SymantecPreserving government email and other digital records shouldn't be a challenge in this era of inexpensive cloud storage. However, as recent news of IRS "lost emails" makes clear, evidence that auditors, investigators, and Congressional committees expect to be easily accessible often is not. And that's a problem.

Attend this webinar to learn: - Key questions to ask, including: Is your agency ready to respond to litigation and manage compliance? Can you meet court-imposed deadlines? Is cloud-based data secure and accessible? - Whether organizations are retaining the information they are required to keep under statute. - Why agencies might look to e-mail systems when launching an information governance program.

Register for this webinar to learn why government IT pros must focus on information governance and use cloud wisely.

Top 5 Tips on Accelerating Hybrid Cloud DeploymentAn InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: Carpathia HostingAccording to Gartner Research, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. However, as cloud becomes more prevalent, decisions about where to run applications to achieve the right balance of cost, security and performance become increasingly complex. This added complexity can act as a roadblock for many businesses, delaying their ability to leverage the cloud for greater agility, control and lower costs, and help drive the bottom line.

Attend this webinar for an in-depth look at hybrid cloud and discover how you can: - Accelerate your cloud deployment in five simple steps - Determine which applications and workloads are suitable for which platform (private or public) - Be confident that you've chosen the right mix of cloud resources to meet your business needs - Recover your visibility into "Shadow IT" - Support today's and tomorrow's apps with one simple solution

Register for this webinar to learn how to cut through the cloud clutter and find a hybrid cloud solution that is right for your business, today.

How a Cloud Contact Center Alters the Way You Launch ProductsAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: GenesysA recent North American survey by Frost & Sullivan found that 90% of contact center organizations plan to use a hosted or Cloud solution by 2016. What is your organization doing to stay competitive? The use of social media and mobile devices continuing to grow, with roughly half of contact centers in the Cloud are already targeting those applications as a normal component of daily commerce, according to Frost & Sullivan.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Capitalize on competitive differentiators to stay out front - Support rapid growth of customers once you launch - Educate prospects to advance your campaigns and increase adoption - Head off social bashing if your product falls short of claims, protecting your brand

Attend this webinar to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in utilizing a Contact Center in the Cloud for effective market introductions of new products and services.

How to Consolidate Your MySQL Master/Slave Pairs by HalfAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: HGSTMySQL slave replicas are a wonderful way of preserving data and service availability. But they're also incredibly wasteful and expensive. They double the initial cost of deployments, and they're always on-burning power and heating up your data centers. HGST has developed a unique way of speeding up MySQL servers while preserving data redundancy and service availability with much less hardware and power. HGST Virident Solutions paired with our tried-and-true FlashMAX PCIe SSD provides a ultra-performance, shared, highly available data store for MySQL. This clustering solution: - Enables the creation of a full-Flash, full-performance N+1 high availability cluster for MySQL - Eliminates the need for active slaves by replicating data at the Flash level - Requires only a single additional backup server which always has access to a HA copy of all your MySQL databases

HGST's Director of Field Marketing Walter Hinton and Global Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Earle Philhower will describe the solutions architecture and management operations of this solution, as well as present metrics to demonstrate how such a cluster could save you both capital and operational expenses.

As a takeaway, you will also receive the white paper "Optimize MySQL Cluster Environments with HGST Flash Pools".

How to Accelerate SQL Server Performance and Lower TCOAn InformationWeek Government WebinarSponsor: SanDiskIt's time to learn how flash solutions deliver the breakthrough performance you need to realize the power of SQL Server 2014. Faster insights are critical to businesses large and small, and through this webinar, you'll understand how flash solutions increase data warehouse speed and simplify management, while reducing capital and operational costs.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Dramatically improve your SQL Server platform and application performance - Support more order processing with fast, consistent OLTP performance - Deliver business insights faster with enterprise storage and SQL Server in-memory data warehouse - See how other enterprises are delivering better business results leveraging flash with their SQL platforms

Register for this webinar to learn how to accelerate your current business performance and enable new business opportunities, while saving money and getting more value from your existing investment in servers and SQL Server licenses

How to Get Started with Data RefinementA InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: IBMData seems to be everywhere except where we need it, when we need it, in the reliable form that we need. Getting access to the right data is a slow process for business analysts; application developers create new apps without thoroughly integrating them with data because of the difficulty of data access; and IT spends inordinate amounts of time providing specific data to business people and developers, reducing the time available for innovative initiatives. Attend this webinar to: - Learn how a data refinery on the cloud can enable self-service access to the data you need - Discover how refinement services can improve the quality and timeliness of the data used for analysis - Discover how easy it is for application developers to build refinement right into their new cloud apps - Hear what IT managers are saying about self-service data refinement that lets their teams focus on higher-value activities - Take a look at self-service analytics on the cloud with built-in data refinement Register for this webinar to learn why data refinement on the cloud is a hot topic for IT teams as well as business analysts and developers. Discover how data refinement on the cloud can reduce your costs and improve the efficiency of your organization as well as the quality of your business analytics.

Attend this webinar to learn: - The pain points and challenges for VDI deployments - How to solve these pain points with better-than-a-PC price and performance equal or better than an UltrabookRegister for this webinar to learn how to simplify and dramatically lower the costs of your VDI solution.

New Solutions for the Mobile WorkforceA InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: DellEvery member of your organization can benefit from mobile technology. It's time to re-think how your company uses mobile technology.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Improve the performance of your workforce, wherever they are - Give mobile professionals who travel full application access - Improve performance and customer interactions

Register for this webinar to learn how new innovations in mobile technology are allowing Business Decision Makers to utilize mobile solutions to improve performance in more parts of their organization. Friday, October 31, 2014 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutesRegister Now!

New Tactics To Protect Data On The MoveA InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: SanDiskIf your endpoint data security and continuity plan begins and ends with a toothless BYOD policy or focusing on just AV, you're asking for trouble. In this InformationWeek webinar, security expert Michael A. Davis will discuss steps to take to protect data, wherever it resides.

Register for this webinar to learn about: - Data encryption: How self-encrypting drives change the game - Cloud services and authentication: How to make it all work. - End users: How to prioritize controls. - Mobile security essentials: What you need to know before you pick your next platform. Thursday, October 30, 2014 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutesRegister Now!

How to Take the Complexity out of ComplianceA InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: IBMNo matter what your overall mobility strategy is, you need strong security strategies for your mobile enterprise. Job one for IT is security, as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) grows in popularity and corporate data winds up going outside your core network.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Keep your network healthy - Stop intrusions - Protect your data Register for this webinar to learn how to get the tools you need to stop worrying about mobile security and start innovating in the mobile space.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Improve the performance of your workforce, wherever they are - Give mobile professionals who travel full application access - Improve performance and customer interactions

Register for this webinar to learn how new innovations in mobile technology are allowing Business Decision Makers to utilize mobile solutions to improve performance in more parts of their organization.

Unlock the Value of Omni-channel Commerce with Business Process ManagementSponsor: FujitsuThe world of retail is going through a fundamental transformation. The growth of mobile, social, and e-commerce has changed retail as we know it, creating the new focus on customer experience. Customers now expect a seamless, consistent, and continuous experience - unified across all channels and systems of engagement. The challenge is that many traditional retail business systems and processes are too rigid and disjointed to adapt to these demands. Meeting customer expectations today and in the future requires technology that extends beyond the most comprehensive packaged applications - it requires a technology that enables retailers to implement, orchestrate, and manage complex business processes.

Attend this webinar to learn: - The State of the Retail Industry - The Next Generation of Retailing - Omni-channel Commerce: Challenges and Benefits - Technology enabling the Unified Customer Experience - Use cases: Omni-channel Commerce Powered by BPM Register for this webinar to learn how Business Process Management (BPM) can make a difference in your organization and how to best leverage it to unlock the value of omni-channel commerce.

How to Best Secure Your Mobile EnterpriseA InformationWeek WebinarSponsor: DellMainframes are well-known for hosting mission-critical corporate information and production applications for many financial, healthcare, government and retail companies that require highly secure systems and regulatory compliance. Demonstrating compliance for your industry can be complex and failure to comply can result in vulnerabilities, audit failures, loss of reputation, security breaches, and even system shut down. How can you simplify enforcement of security policy and best practices? How can you automate security monitoring, threat detection, remediation and compliance reporting? How can you demonstrate governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe?

Step Up Your IT Infrastructure Monitoring Game for the Application EconomySponsor: CAThe rush towards an “application economy” is accelerating the adoption of new applications and technologies. And all the while, expectations are continuously rising for higher availability and faster performance across, physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. IT operations teams need to change the way they monitor and manage performance of critical business applications and services.

Attend this webinar to learn: - Identifying root case of widespread global network outage - How the “App Economy” is disrupting the way IT operational team work - What infrastructure monitoring capabilities are critical to thrive in this new dynamic landscape - What efficiencies organizations have achieved by adopting a modern approach and platform

Register for this webinar to learn how to build a unified and proactive approach to IT infrastructure monitoring.

Register for this webinar to understand the advantages of the latest Intel® technology that drives the performance of your environment, and Dell server innovation and services that drive application performance to new levels, reduce management complexity and take the risk out of migrating siloed RISC and UNIX systems into open X86 technologies.

Big Data Solutions: A Dynamic Exploration of Big Data InitiativesSponsor: Dell/IntelStudies show that one of the top priorities of a CIO for the second consecutive year is big data. Big data and Hadoop solutions are driving change and altering the way businesses are built and maintained. From the opportunities that new types of data have driven, to the speed at which organizations can respond to insights, to the interactive insights and analytics that protect businesses and drive competitive advantages, big data is responsible for quantifiable business gains for those who have strategically adopted innovative initiatives. Leaders building insightful business plans to optimize data insights are initiating positive change. Attend this session to hear our panel of industry experts discuss Big Data Hadoop solutions that are driving business forward.

You are invited to an interactive session with industry expert Addison Snell, CEO of leading analyst firm Intersect360, and Karim Lokas, senior vice president of strategy, product, & marketing for Omneo, a division of Camstar Systems. Mr. Lokas will demonstrate how they took control of massive amounts of diverse data types to leverage a successful Hadoop solution. Jimmy Pike, vice president, senior fellow at Dell, will join the panel to discuss the innovation needed to drive big data strategies.

Panelists will address: - Why many companies are turning to big data for answers and the value they're finding - How to match your big data use case to the right operational environment for the best results - What business challenges Omneo set out to address and the results achieved - How to identify big data objectives faster, more cost-effectively and with less risk - Answers to your pressing big data questions

Register today to participate in this dynamic exploration of big data initiatives.

HP IT: Getting to Root Cause Faster with Data AnalyticsSponsor: HPThe HP IT organization manages more than 20,000 databases, 50,000 servers, 60,000 network devices, and 2,000 applications spread across datacenters located in three cities. how does HP Operations Analytics help HP IT ensure performance and availability of systems and applications in their traditional and private cloud data centers?

Register for this webinar to understand the advantages of the latest Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor technology that drives the performance of your environment, and Dell server innovation and services that drive application performance to new levels, reduce management complexity and take the risk out of migrating siloed RISC and UNIX systems into open X86 technologies.

Wake up from your customer engagement stupor!!Sponsor:Aditi TechnologiesCompanies think they have a mobile app and a website and they are doing good with connected customer engagement. But Mobile app + website is so 2012. Consumer technologies are upending every year but has your experience kept up. You need to wake up from the stupor and be an active revolutionary in this Digital Revolution. Revolutionaries like Macy's have already upped their game and are doing some of the largest implementations of these. Where are you? Why be a silent partner? Time to take the lead.

Attend this webinar to learn how to: - Redefine your customer's experience - Build for a mobile first world - Utilize data to analyze and predict what's next - Embrace cloud computing to drive execution agility and scale

Register for this webinar to learn how to wake up to the new era of customer engagement and use digital transformation to stake your claim as a leader in this revolution.

Cloud ROI Meets Econ 101: A Guide To Making Wise Cloud InvestmentsSponsor: VMwareFew dispute that public cloud services lighten the load on IT staffs - and on capital budgets. But that isn't all IT leaders must consider. The public vs. private vs. hybrid cloud decision needs to reflect your business strategy and fiscal realities over a reasonable timeframe. In this InformationWeek webcast, we'll explain how to suss out a clear ROI picture, with findings from our exclusive Cloud ROI Survey.

Attendees will learn: - How to factor in "soft" benefits from cloud such as business agility; - Strategies for moving between private and public clouds as factors including business needs and provider costs change; and - Best practices to ensure the IT architecture allow for the kind of dynamic switching between private and public cloud that ROI models require.

Employee Enablement Infrastructure StrategiesSponsor: SprintEmployee enablement infrastructure, including hardware, software and connectivity, can be complex and costly. How can you ensure your employees have access to critical applications and cloud-based resources when and wherever they need it? As employees become increasingly more mobile – and can eat up IT resources.

This is the third of three Information Week Webinars in a series entitled “Mobilizing the New Millennial Workforce”, where we will bring together industry analysts and experts to share their unique perspectives on enterprise mobility, collaboration, unified communications, mobile applications, device management, mobile security and cloud-aware networks. In the era of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), securing and managing your data housed on personal mobile devices is essential but it doesn't need to be difficult.

This webinar will focus on - How IT departments can build and manage flexible, scalable platforms while freeing up time so can they focus on driving the business instead of updating the infrastructure. - Employee enablement strategies and examine device security to minimize risk and empower workers who no longer work at traditional desks day in and day out.

How Hybrid Storage Can Help in GovernmentSponsor: ThunderCat / NetAppAmong enterprise IT teams, hybrid storage is hot. The concept of keeping data in the optimum repository based on cost, efficiency, security, and access frequency considerations is just as applicable to government agencies. However, there are special considerations, including Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) and Cloud First mandates.

Attend this webinar to: - Learn more about hybrid storage in practical government case studies - Control compliance in the face of new Cloud First mandates - Break down silos within your organization - Unify storage pools through tighter integration of cloud apps Register for this webinar to learn how to leverage hybrid storage in the changing world of government regulations

Efficiency through Private Cloud: Solutions from Dell & Microsoft that deliver IT transformationSponsor: DellEvolving to support the needs of today's workforce, on-demand application environments, and new cloud computing models is no easy task. Many teams struggle with where to start, or how to leverage existing investments while moving toward a Service-centric IT model. With the flexibility & variety of tools available in today's cloud computing ecosystem, it's within reach of everyone to deploy cloud on their terms, at any size & scale.

Best Practices for Conducting Proof of Concept ProjectsSponsor: Red Hat/DellDell Solution Centers are a network of technical centers located in key sites around the globe where you can access Dell technology in a dedicated, hands-on state-of-the-art environment. Dell and Red Hat offer co-engineered solutions for created OpenStack powered clouds. We have been working with customers to explore OpenStack powered clouds for a number of years and in this dynamic session we will share a number of key best practices to help you to conduct proof of concept projects with OpenStack. Join us in this session to learn more!

Unleashing Productivity with Mobile ApplicationsSponsor: SprintIT wants their workers to be more productive, more agile and more responsive to the needs of their customers. Moving to the cloud is one solution, with apps such as Google Apps for Business. The combination of unified communications and mobility can promote collaboration and teamwork, while linking together the dispersed workforce.

This is the second of three InformationWeek Webinars in a series entitled "Mobilizing the New Millennial Workforce", where we will bring together industry analysts and experts to share their unique perspectives on enterprise mobility, collaboration, unified communications, mobile applications, device management, mobile security and cloud-aware networks. In the era of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), securing and managing your data housed on personal mobile devices is essential but it doesn't need to be difficult.

How to Revolutionize Analytics with Next-Generation In-Memory ComputingSponsor: IBM For organizations across industries, analytics is no longer an option, but an imperative. Next generation in-memory computing revolutionizes reporting and analytics, allowing you to analyze more data faster and more efficiently than ever before to uncover insights for growing revenue, reducing cost, and lowering risk.

Attend this webinar to:

- Gain instant insight from real-time operational data - Get insight at the speed of thought to grow revenue, reduce cost and lower risk. - Hear how one University processed their admissions and enrollment workloads 106x faster, saving 42 days a year in administration effort at the same time.

Register for this webinar to learn how you can gain a sustainable competitive advantage and take your organization to a new level with IBM’s next generation in-memory computing.

Don't Get Spiked: Best Practices for Keeping Website Traffic FlowingSponsor: NeustarYou feel confident that after all your monitoring and load testing, your website is ready to handle any traffic spike - then BAM! A flood of visitors from a great review, a big sale or a breaking news story starts to pound away. Worse, you may become subjected to the ever increasing danger of Denial of Service attacks. By the time you notice, it can be too late. Load times lag. The site crashes. Customers bail. Not cool. Whether you're serving ecommerce customers, delivering media or managing a high-demand website, traffic spikes and DDoS attacks can be managed when you are ready for them. Otherwise, you risk performance and brand reputation.

Register for this webinar to hear how you can keep the madness at bay.

Best practices for Running Dev/Test on OpenStackSponsor: Red Hat / Dell OpenStack has gained a lot of attention because it promises to provide highly flexible, open, scalable and dynamic cloud environments. These qualities make OpenStack an ideal platform for fostering innovation in IT environments. In this dynamic session Dell and Red Hat architects will share best practices developed in real world deployments and projects that use Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to accelerate innovation, and we will illustrate how you can make innovation come to life in your organization. Attend this webinar to learn from Dell and Red Hat engineers, who will share best practices for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to accelerate innovation with development labs

Empowering Employees with Mobility and CollaborationSponsor: SprintToday’s employees have no patience or anything less than fast, ubiquitous connectivity. How we work, the technology tools we use and the ways we collaborate with teams and co-workers are rapidly transforming in the new workforce that will soon be dominated by Millennials. This group, which has grown up entirely in a hyper-connected and increasingly mobile world, will reshape the culture of companies large and small and drive the future. The most successful companies will be those that leverage technology to empower their employees, removing the obstacles to their success, and engaging employees so they will drive the business. Mobile broadband is core to this new workforce, and collaboration tools are needed to effectively tie together dispersed workers and teams, promoting teamwork.

This is the first of three Information Week Webinars in a series entitled “Mobilizing the New Millennial Workforce”, where we will bring together industry analysts and experts to share their unique perspectives on enterprise mobility, collaboration, unified communications, mobile applications, device management, mobile security and cloud-aware networks. In the era of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), securing and managing your data housed on personal mobile devices is essential but it doesn't need to be difficult.

Managing Your Mobility Beyond BYODSponsor: IBM IBM has been named as the first and only IT vendor in the Leaders category in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Managed Mobility Services. IBM's Managed Mobility Services enable a security-rich environment required to more safely use mobile devices in the workplace, allowing employees to use corporate and personal devices to perform job functions "anytime and anywhere."

Attend this webinar to:

- Learn why IBM was named as the first and only IT vendor in the Leaders category in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Managed Mobility Services - Better understand how a mobile enterprise infrastructure can help organizations address the challenges inherent in mobility more efficiently and effectively - See how you can create a high-performing mobile workforce by leveraging your enterprise e-mail on mobile devices - Recognize how IBM Mobility Services can help your organization achieve higher efficiencies as you begin to develop a mobile leadership position

Register for this webinar to learn more about successful implementation of managed mobility services and how you can utilize managed mobility services.

What is the Orchestrated Datacenter?Sponsor: HP IT organizations are tasked with delivering end-to-end services for infrastructure and applications, while concurrent revolutions in cloud computing, mobility, big data and security are redefining what enterprise users expect from their applications and IT services.

IT professionals need to manage the complexity of accelerated delivery of services across traditional IT Data Centers or cloud environments-whether it is a full stack of infrastructure from storage, network, servers to databases or right up to the application layer. As an IT organization, success depends on efficiently orchestrating operations across functional silos, eliminating the hand-offs, delays and errors that lower the end users' experiences.

Join Andy Mackay and Muneer Mubashir as they discuss what the Orchestrated Data Center really is.

Converged Infrastructure for Remote Offices: How to ChooseAn InformationWeek WebinarDeploying and supporting IT infrastructure in branch offices can be costly, complex, and inefficient. Converged infrastructure offers simplification and efficiency – but understanding the unique needs of remote locations is critical to choosing the right solution.

Register for this webinar to learn from Forrester Research and Riverbed Technology to be better equipped to navigate the converged infrastructure landscape and gain more clarity around essential solution requirements when targeting branch deployments.

Maximizing the Value of Core Systems With Customer PortalsSponsor: Actuate With the demand for digital interaction increasing daily, insurers know they have to build capabilities that deliver relevant policy information to their customers and agents on-demand through whatever their preferred channels are. Expectations have converged on the need for seamless access to information across the P/C, life, and health insurance spectrum through a wide variety of methods. Meeting that expectation has become a competitively defining moment of truth. For many carriers, their legacy systems and modern counterparts falter due to limited functionality and/or the cost prohibitive enhancements needed to address the rapidly proliferating customer touchpoints, including the call center, web, mobile devices, and soon wearable devices. More often than not, the current limitations result in inconsistent, potentially inaccurate, and at times frustrating, agent and customer experiences. Yet leading carriers have found a way to combine delivering excellent user experiences on the front end, providing individualized access to relevant information, with an operationally responsive, and affordable, back end.

Join this webcast to:

- Hear as The Nolan Company’s Chad Hersh describes how to leverage customer portals to provide a common customer experience across systems and reduce the pain of core systems transformation projects - Find out from The Nolan Company's Steve Callahan how the volume, velocity, varieity, and veracity of information has proliferated, bringing increased customer and agent demands as well as risks - Learn more about how companies are handling the converging demands of core systems upgrades, customer and agent information requirements, and the meaningful collection, distillation, and presentation of key information.

Register for this webinar to learn how to develop customer portals that deliver on the promise of increased access to policy data around the clock.

Enabling Hybrid Cloud Solutions to Improve EfficiencySponsor: IBMTraditional IT environments are becoming more complex, costly, and time consuming to manage, especially with multiple vendors engaged. Whether your environment is midrange, distributed, or mainframe, IBM's Hybrid Cloud solutions can help your organization get a grip on this complexity and control costs, improve availability with around-the-clock monitoring and management, and increase operational efficiency.

Attend this webinar to learn more about:

- Control cost by offering customizable services that use a hybrid delivery model, virtualization, and automation by only paying for the services you need. - Improve operating efficiency through a single point of contact - Provide around-the-clock monitoring and management services for servers, storage devices, and software to increase availability

Register for this webinar to learn how to get a grip on cloud complexity with managed services.

- Ensuring the performance of cloud-based applications - The complexity of integrating SaaS into critical internal systems - How to protect the business’ interests by having a strategy to translate data via the cloud provider’s API

Staying Agile with Big Data - A Roadmap to Long Term SuccessAn InformationWeek Webinar Agility is the key for benefiting from the use of Big Data for operational excellence and improved profitability. Ovum Research finds that organizations that take an iterative approach to refining analytic models, consolidating data sources, and transitioning to the cloud, tend to find more success with Big Data. In addition, IT vendors that enable customers to build open, flexible Big Data ecosystems are more likely to be treated as trusted advisors. No matter where you are in the Big Data adoption lifecycle, you will learn about proven methods to open the possibilities of your data.

Unlocking the Promise of Software as a ServiceSponsor: IBM IBM's first-ever global SaaS study of 879 decision makers uncovered that reducing cost and gaining competitive business advantage are the primary reasons companies adopt Software as a Service (SaaS). However, getting the most out of SaaS from both a financial and business perspectives requires new approaches to service management across the organization.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Deliver services that gives business the competitive edge. - Improve quality of service across SaaS, cloud, and hybrid applications. - Unlock profitability through enabling rapid IT innovation. - Register for this webinar to learn how to become a champion of Software as a Service delivery.

Is Your Database a Hero or a Zero?Sponsor: IBM In today’s fast paced world, adapting quickly to changing business requirements adds a tremendous amount of pressure to an IT organization. In addition to aggressive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for high availability and fast performance, IT must ensure transaction scalability for rapidly growing data stores and provide a flexible database platform for application developers to spin up new applications quickly and easily.

In meeting these needs, your database can be a hero, or it can be a hindrance. Does your database:

- Recover from a node failure in seconds, or minutes? - Minimize the amount of tuning to keep it running at peak performance? - Optimize both the speed and cost of different types of storage? - Give applications transparency to the underlying database architecture? - And lastly, does your database require too many staff, and is it too costly?

Attend the webcast to learn which database works for you vs. against you. See how the right database architecture can help you achieve your SLAs and give application developers the freedom and flexibility to focus on their code, not the underlying infrastructure.

3 Top Storage Trends for 2015 RevealedSponsor: IBM As CIOs and IT architects continue to be pressured by management to do more with less and by users to just do more they'll have to plan how to accommodate three trends in the IT marketplace - shifting to a hybrid cloud model; big data analytics; and new data protection challenges from BYOD.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Use cloud services to improve disaster recovery while limiting costs - Keep BYOD from becoming "Users must Backup Your Own Data" - Protect software as a service (SaaS) data - Improve primary storage and collaboration through the cloud

Register for this webinar to learn how forward thinking IT organizations can embrace these trends and deliver even better storage, data protection and disaster recovery services to their users.

5 Steps to Make IT a Blue-Chip BrandSponsor: IBM Do your business colleagues see IT as essential to success — or a cost center? You may be surprised that in our last IT Perception Survey, only 43% of non-IT respondents considered their IT teams integral to the business, and 54% classified IT as a support or maintenance organization and not an innovator.

Why do we labor under this image even as technology moves ever-higher on the priority list for CEOs? In a word, lack of marketing. You’ll learn:

- The many benefits -- both to IT and customers -- of regular satisfaction surveys - How changing one simple word in employee communications can vastly boost IT's reputation, and more.

In this InformationWeek Webinar, we’ll give you a five step plan to polish any IT department’s image.

Title: Why Do You Need OpenStack?Sponsor: Red Hat / Dell Dell and Red Hat Cloud Solutions remove complexity, stabilize OpenStack and its operating environment, and rapidly deploy private cloud computing in any organization. Dell and Red Hat are working with numerous customers to design and deploy OpenStack powered clouds and there are clear usage trends where OpenStack is proving its worth.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Host new “cloud-aware” apps build from loosely coupled autonomous services to provide scale and automation - Accelerate innovation and incubation of new IT projects with an agile, dynamic development environment - Provide storage as-a-service to distributed workforces with cost-effective and dynamic infrastructure available at a moment’s notice - Register for this webinar to get an outline of how OpenStack is supporting Storage-as-a-Service, new cloud-aware applications, software-defined networking as well as additional advanced cloud environments.

Mind the Gap – Addressing Shortfalls in Your Existing Security InfrastructureAn InformationWeek Webinar Despite the fact that organizations invest in all the available security technologies such as firewalls, IDS, Network Behavior and Anomaly Detection and SIEM platform to try and identify and stop threats, the number and impact and threats continue to grow. Security organizations are inundated with a lot of noise and their existing solutions are unable to keep pace with the complexity and sophistication of new attacks. How can they fill this gap? Security organizations need to use the vast amounts of data at their disposal to identify both external attacks and internal malicious behavior. They must find efficient and effective ways to identify real threats hidden in the “noise.” But that is just the beginning, how can they use all that data to respond faster and with greater precision?

Join this webcast to learn about:

- The gaps that exist in today’s security infrastructure - Key elements of a solution that are required to fill the gaps - Combining existing defenses with analytics to increase their effectiveness in detecting and mitigating cybersecurity threats accompanied with example use cases

Register for this webinar to learn how to fill the gaps and identify the real threats through the alert “noise, prioritize them more accurately, and respond faster, with great precision.

Internet of Things Data: How to Use Embedded Database & Streaming Analytics for ValueSponsor: IBM The Internet of Things (IoT) is driven by consumer demand for new services and convenience, as well as by the availability of low cost sensors, smart phones, and universal internet access. New technologies can enable you to take advantage of this new natural resource through gateway processing, cloud infrastructure and distributed real-time analytics.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Understand the 3-tier IoT architecture including edge devices, gateways, and cloud - Derive the importance of a gateway database for local processing and storage of data from your edge devices - Act in real time with sophisticated analysis of your streaming data for time sensitive decisions.

Register for this webinar to learn more about the latest technology enabling the Internet of Things across devices, sensors, gateways and the cloud for connected environments. See how bringing an intelligent mix of technologies from an enterprise-class database to the “edge” and real-time analytics on consolidated data provides a competitive advantage in the Internet of Things.

How to Cancel No-Shows & Build Patient EngagementSponsor: Interactive Intelligence No-shows cost the U.S. health system about $150 billion annually. Accounting for about 6% of appointments, they disrupt scheduling, harm their own health, and can cost practices tens of thousands of dollars in lost fees.

This webinar, presented by Bill Ramalho, CIO of Virginia Surgery Associates and sponsored by Interactive Intelligence, demonstrates how you can:

A CIO's Guide To Cloud ServicesSponsor: IBM Looking at IT from the CEO's viewpoint, IT is a service organization that integrates internal and external services to benefit employees, customers, and ultimately, the bottom line. Today's CIO, however, must evaluate which services are core internal services, and which are better suited for selective outsourcing, either to the cloud or another service provider.

What SaaS Can Really Do for You: Top Benefits RevealedAn InformationWeek Webinar In a deep dive global SaaS study of 879 decision makers it was demonstrated that the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) has skyrocketed over the last few years. Reducing costs is still a primary reason companies turn to Software as a Service. But 47 percent of the cloud leaders surveyed are discovering how SaaS can help them achieve a much broader and more strategic goal – unlocking competitive advantage.

Attend this webinar to learn:

- How SaaS can help your organization gain efficiency, strategize as a team, increase market agility, and improve decision making - Ways visionary companies like Virgin Atlantic, SafeGuard World International and Italian retail giant PAC2000A are using SaaS to increase results - How you can drive your own competitive advantage through SaaS

Register for this webinar to learn how Pacesetters are using SaaS to provide their entire enterprise a wide range of powerful benefits. It can reduce costs, yes. More than that, though, it can engender rich and far-reaching collaborations, clear the way to better decision making, and make you more customer-focused and agile in the marketplace. way to better decision making, and make you more customer-focused and agile in the marketplace.

In-Memory Meets Big Data: How Much Speed Do You Need?Sponsor: SAP Databases and big-data platforms that can take advantage of lots of memory really do deliver the fastest data-analysis speeds available. That’s enticing to companies struggling with high-scale online transactions or in need of timely analysis of customer behavior. For now, disk-based storage is still the enterprise standard, but the price of RAM is declining steadily. The ongoing question for practitioners will be, “how much speed do you need?”

Attend this webinar to get the following questions answered:

- What qualifies as big data, and what are the options for in-memory data analysis? - How are memory standards changing in the data warehousing arena? - How are NoSQL and NewSQL vendors exploiting memory? - What qualifies as an in-memory database, and how are they being used? - How will in-memory technology play in the world of Hadoop?

Private Cloud: Top Benefits RevealedSponsor: IBM The adoption of cloud services has accelerated over the past decade as companies seek to control expense and ramp capacity up or down as needed to align with business needs. IDC research shows that end user organizations are planning to shift a larger percentage of their IT budgets into private or hybrid cloud delivery models.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Market trends and key considerations based on IDC research - The benefits of private and hybrid approaches - Why professional services are so important to successful cloud implementation

Register for this webinar to learn from and interact with an IDC analyst and an IBM subject matter expert about the benefits of private cloud.

Mobile Telecommunications: What’s the True Cost?Sponsor: Pomeroy Today, telecommunications costs have become the largest drain on most IT budgets. But the expense of mobile devices alone is not the driving force behind this increase. Many older devices go unused, yet continue to be included on plan activations. The use of multiple carriers blocks the ability to leverage more cost-effective rates. Immature lifecycle management processes hinder accurate asset tracking, leading to inefficient resource allocation and productivity issues.

Organizations are learning the importance of knowing more about how their mobile apps are being used, what features and capabilities are driving the most successful user engagement, and what users are feeling about the mobile apps.

All of this information, obtained directly from users and associated app stores contributes to their ability to respond quickly to the needs of the user, without undue reliance on direct interaction with the user.

Join us to explore how continuous monitoring can help provide access to the necessary information and analysis of relevant data to drive strong business results for organizations focused on mobile.

How to Build a Shared-Services Infrastructure in the Age of Big DataSponsor: IBM As organizations deploy new scaled-out frameworks like Hadoop for analytic applications, “cluster-sprawl” often emerges as the elephant in the room, with multiple application specific clusters that are costly to maintain and difficult to consolidate. While capabilities emerging in open-source including Hadoop YARN can help, clients need a strategy and architecture to get to a shared-services approach, ensure service levels and keep costs under control.

Register for this webinar to learn how by deploying Hadoop along with other workloads on a shared infrastructure, you can boost efficiency, simplify life-cycle management, and react more quickly to changing business requirements without the need to re-tool your infrastructure.

Mobile Security Strategies: Stop Feeling Like a BabysitterSponsor: TITUS Many companies and agencies have jumped on the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) bandwagon without fully evaluating the risks posed by company data on personally owned devices. Even with new mobile device management (MDM) solutions providing tight containerization and content management features, policies and controls are being implemented that focus more on user behavior than protecting the data itself.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Protect your data while allowing users the freedom to use their own devices - Develop policies that are more likely to get buy-in from management and users - Use data classification to enhance the protection of data on mobile devices - Evaluate MDM solutions that will protect your data without completely squashing productivity and functionality

Trends in Integration: How Emerging Use Cases in Cloud, Mobile and Analytics are Changing the GameSponsor: IBM Organizations today are looking to utilize major market technology shifts from new business models made possible by cloud technologies to new channels of engagement with customers via mobile and social platforms. In this new era, agile movers gain competitive advantage as they are quicker to respond and gain valuable insights into business activities. Is your organization positioned to adapt and capture these opportunities?

Underpinning all of this is a robust and flexible integration layer which has never been more important. Join us to learn how integration solutions can enable your organization to spend less time keeping up and more time innovating and engaging with your customers.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Use integration technologies to speed up the production and hardening of mobile apps. - Leverage the cloud for universal access to support your needs. - Gain insight into in-flight data for more informed decision making. - Utilize new technologies such as chef to speed provisioning deployment. - Rapidly deploy integrations with prebuilt patterns and tooling.

Register for this webinar to learn why it is easier than ever to enable a flexible architecture which can better serve customers and improve resource ROI.

The Frictionless Enterprise: Built for BusinessSponsor: IBM To succeed today, businesses need fluid integration of mobile and cloud, partners and suppliers, developers and big data, as well as security and governance. Designing, building, and deploying such a fully integrated next-gen infrastructure will be less complex if you follow some key principles: Don’t create new data silos; consider cloud and mobile as just part of the stack. Remember: It’s not “mobile business,” it’s just “business."

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Understand how your peers are using mobility; - Avoid data silos within your infrastructure; - Integrate all internal partners for easy buy-in from developers all the way through governance; and - Redefine mobile business as part of the organic business strategy.

Register for this webinar to get a look at the strategies that are winning and help identify how they can be used in your organization.

3 Things You Need to Know about MobilityAn InformationWeek Webinar Making your business mobile doesn’t just mean letting your employees use their own devices. You need to turn those devices from toys into tools and secure enterprise assets no matter where your users work.

Just because your employees have mobile devices doesn’t mean that they have the tools or access to effectively perform their jobs. Join us to watch a demo and learn how to go the last mile and achieve full mobile productivity with Novell. Register Now!

Cloud Billing in a Digital Economy: Best PracticesSponsor: Oracle The digital economy has arrived, business models are shifting, and only those quick to adjust will profit. Gone are the days of slow and unresponsive attitudes towards customers, the focus is on predictive presentation of offers and the speedy delivery of both physical and more often digital assets. Enterprises are focused on delivering subscription services that create recurring revenue streams and a relationship with their customers. The combination of assets and offers required to meet the customer needs have caused an increase in the complexity of product mixes and are stressing legacy systems built for the old economy.

The Agile Archive: Best Practices for Archiving DataSponsor: CommVault Most IT teams are so busy dealing with the huge influx of new data they receive that archiving the old stuff takes a backseat. At best, IT considers archiving as a cost center, and at worst, it’s a tremendous headache. It doesn’t have to be that way. A truly efficient system should actually save your team both time and money.

Development and Testing in the Cloud: What You Need to KnowSponsor: IBM Cloud, analytics, mobile and social are driving the need for speed in application development. By 2016, more than one-fourth of the world’s apps will be available in the cloud and 85% of new software is now being built for cloud deployment.

Attend this webinar to learn about:

- How a composable services environment unlocks innovation - The four adoption paths of DevOps - How to find a prescription for DevOps adoption

Register for this webinar to learn about key DevOps considerations and lessons learned.

- A step by step walk through using Horizon to provision bare metal servers - A deeper understanding of the technologies that enable revolutionary dense servers that deliver converged servers, storage and networking that are uniquely optimal for OpenStack - Greater insights into the API interfaces provided by next generation servers and how OpenStack is leveraging them - Lessons about the largest OpenStack scalability test conducted and the results from that test

CIOs and CISOs recognize that their existing security skills, and tools are no match for today’s cybersecurity complexity and sophisticated attacks. Big data security analytics are necessary to uncover and quickly respond to these insidious threats.

Join this webcast to learn about:

- The link between big data, security analytics and cybersecurity - Combining perimeter defenses with analytics to accelerate detection and mitigation of cybersecurity threats - Use cases for the application of security analytics using big data

Is Your Database Really Ready for Big Data?Sponsor: IBM Businesses are in a race to tap into big data to unlock the keys that help them amaze, retain and grow their customers and their business. To do so, they need to capture and store new sources and types of data, and analyze it in context with data they already have.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Analyze data faster than ever before to uncover insights for growing revenue - Accelerate time-to-value with load-and-go simplicity - Get in-memory performance without the limitations of other in-memory databases - Optimize business operations through real time analysis of operational data - Reduce labor, storage and system resources required for high performance analytics - Reduce business risk with decades of high availability / disaster recovery expertise

Register for this webinar to learn why your database management system matters more than ever in the era of big data.

Flash and Solid-State Storage: A GuideAn InformationWeek Webinar How attackers exploit end-users have significant security implications for enterprise preparedness and defensive strategies. The vast majority of hacks and data breaches can be traced to phishing emails that were opened by employees in the targeted organization. This webinar will help IT and Information Security decision-makers understand the nature of the generation of targeted phishing attacks, the impact of end-user behavior on their effectiveness, and the limitations of end-user-focused training and awareness efforts.

Register for this webinar to learn how you can mitigate the human factor to improve your defense against targeted attacks. Once you are armed with the details of these potential attacks, you can better arm your security team on where to focus their efforts and how to mitigate the risks with immediate action.

SaaS or Cloud Strategies: What's Missing?Sponsor: Riverbed Companies are no longer asking if, but rather when and how to move to the cloud. These days, solutions like Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce with their cloud-first, mobile-first strategies are making IT departments worldwide rethink the way they deliver IT services to their users no matter where they are located.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Ensure performance of traditional in-house applications and SaaS applications - Guarantee service levels - Gain visibility into applications - Take control over traffic to and from the cloud - Manage data across hybrid networks, infrastructures and environments

Mobile App Delivery & DevOps: Best Practices RevealedSponsor: IBM Mobile computing is causing a rapid shift in the need for rapid access to services and data. Development teams must frequently release new versions of mobile applications in response to feedback from customers and testers, or because of changes to the back-end (for example, updates to a database or web service). To keep up with user demand, short development cycles are required by mobile, development and operations teams resulting in the use of DevOps practices of continuous release and deployment.

Attend this webinar to learn about:

- The often ignored dependence of mobile apps on cloud-based and back-end services - How automation of release and deployment processes simplify the delivery of complex mobile apps that rely on a variety of multi-tier services - Technologies available now to support organizations struggling with the disconnect between mobile and enterprise app development.

Register for this webinar to learn how DevOps practices can help provide coordinated, repeatable deployment processes from mobile apps to the cloud-based and back-end services.

Mobile App Delivery & DevOps: Best Practices RevealedSponsor: IBM Over the last year, the average cost in the U.S. for each lost or stolen record containing personally identifiable information has increased by 9 percent, from $188 to $201. In addition to facing higher costs, companies are losing more customers following a data breach, with the average abnormal churn rate increasing by 15 percent.

Register for this webinar to:

- Uncover companies and industries that are most likely - and least likely - to experience a breach - Examine the costs incurred by 61 U.S. companies in 16 industry sectors after those companies experienced the loss or theft of protected personal data - Find out which root cause of a data breach costs companies the most

Is your company susceptible to a breach? Find out by registering for this webinar.

How to Calculate Data ConfidenceSponsor: IBM Data confidence is an abstract notion in most organizations. Yet it is critical in order to make your front line workers trust and act upon big data and analytic insight, as even the most game-changing analytics will have no impact if your team doesn't use them, because they don't trust in the data or the insights.

Register for this webinar to learn about compelling new research that identifies the critical criteria to measure and score confidence levels in customer data to make better business decisions. You will also learn about a new online tool that provides a fast and easy way for attendees to obtain their score.

Join this webinar to discover how one organization replaced their global payments systems in a risk-reducing and efficient manner. The webinar will reveal how service virtualization and automated integration testing helped the team:

Annual DDoS Attacks and Impact Report Results RevealedSponsor: Neustar In 2013, over 50 percent of companies hit by DDoS attacks suffered theft of funds, customer data or intellectual property. The impact of DDoS is felt across the organization, not just by IT and security, with customer service and call center teams bearing the brunt. This webinar will review this and other major findings in Neustar’s just-released 2014 DDoS Attacks and Impact report.

Attend this webinar to:

- Learn why DDoS isn’t going away—it’s only going further. - Understand how these attacks are evolving and the true intents of the hackers. - Discover key trends such as how many businesses were attacked in 2013 and how many were attacked multiple times. - Find out how much DDoS outages really cost companies. - Identify tools that protect your company from attacks.

Register for this webinar to benefit from understanding the real impact of DDoS attacks and what you can do NOW to prevent them.

Join Tony Scott, VMware CIO and veteran of Microsoft, Disney and General Motors, and Chris Murphy of InformationWeek as they explore what's getting in the way of success.

This webinar will explore how "digital business" is reshaping IT's role and the opportunities for IT execs to overcome the roadblocks and lead digital strategy for their companies. Join us to:

- Explore the role of the CIO in driving digital strategy for the company and leading digital business initiatives - Understand the operational, organizational and cultural changes required to successfully support today's technology-driven enterprise - Learn approaches for developing digital business competencies within your organization

Today's CIO can play an important role in creating competitive differentiation for their companies through a digital strategy. Register for the live meeting now to gain insight you can use to take the next step.

Bare Metal to OpenStack: What You Need to KnowSponsor: AMD Cloud computing is experiencing an unprecedented wave of innovation that is clouding the decision path to building a scalable, efficient infrastructure for public or private clouds. To bring clarity to the noisy market, you need a solution that is the fastest way to build an efficient and highly scalable cloud.

Register for this webinar to learn how to deal with real-life deployment scenarios and gain the most up-to-date information on how OpenStack can be leveraged in your organization today.

Next-gen Mobility: Will Your Strategy Make the Cut?Sponsor: IBM Mobile capabilities are disrupting traditional business models. What used to work is no longer viable as standard solutions do not meet user expectations for a good mobile experience. According to a recent survey on mobility conducted by IBM and IDC, less than half of organizations have comprehensive strategies in place to address mobility implementation challenges.

Attend this webinar to hear Leslie Rosenberg, Research Manager for IDC, and Steve Boyle of IBM discuss how you can:

- Identify your mobility goals and a migration strategy - Evaluate the current mobile options, trends and available solutions - Mitigate security and compliance concerns - Create a mobile experience that your users will appreciate and use

Register for this webinar to learn how you can tackle the mobility challenges and migrate to a next-generation mobile offering.

Hybrid Cloud Backups: How to Get More for LessSponsor: IBM Abdicating your company’s data protection responsibilities to the first cloud solution provider you encounter is as unwise as doing nothing to leverage the cloud at all. On the other hand, it would be a very wise decision to investigate what results you could achieve by choosing a backup technology that is capable of supporting a hybrid approach covering both on-premises and offsite cloud capabilities.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Understand how organizations are managing the data backup process - Gain insights into the pros and cons of offsite cloud capabilities - Hear the truth why a hybrid approach to a backup architecture would be better - Learn what to look for in a Hybrid Backup Solution

802.11ac & SDN : The New Enterprise EdgeSponsor: Meru Networks 2014 will be a year of incredible opportunity in the mobility and wireless LAN market, with the deployment of 802.11ac, or gigabit Wi-Fi, hitting the mainstream. In addition, new developments such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and software-defined networking (SDN) will fundamentally change the way we approach developing and deploying those networks, at the same time transforming how IT is purchased, deployed, integrated and managed.

Attend this webinar to:

- Hear from a panel of IT leaders on meeting the challenges and avoiding mistakes in the migration to 802.11ac - Discover how trends from 802.11ac and IoT will catalyze change in Wi-Fi networks - Learn about SDN and its impact to the network

Join Meru’s featured guest Rohit Mehra of IDC and a distinguished panel of IT leaders for an informative, fast-paced exploration of how to ensure a high quality end user experience in the midst of the most important developments in the history of the wireless and wired edge.

Join this educational webinar to hear from Jay Ferro, CIO of the American Cancer Society, as he shares his experience on how to:

- Identify previously unseen savings opportunities - Evaluate new vendor partnerships that can provide the best value at a much better price - Cut your Oracle® and SAP® maintenance bills in half and receive premium support - Be a catalyst for change… and growth

CIOs and IT Executives don’t have to look far to find hugely beneficial savings but they need to be willing to look in areas they might otherwise be hesitant to explore. This can make a big difference in delivering significant value to the business rather than just playing catch up.

Join this special broadcast from April’s InformationWeek Conference where Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box, applies his renowned wit and no-holds-barred wisdom to a range of topics, from rogue IT and the bring-your-own-app movement to the state of IT leadership and innovation.

Box, the cloud-based storage provider Aaron co-founded in 2005, has changed the way more than 25 million individuals and 225,000 businesses worldwide not only store but also share their critical information.

Loss of employee productivity and revenue can result from an inability to monitor end-to-end transaction performance and analyze application-related data from across your organization.

Join this webinar we share our analysis of how 230 of your peers are coping with the need to ensure that applications are effectively managed, exhibit acceptable performance, and are cost effective, including how you can:

- Monitor and manage complex, heterogeneous systems encompassing everything from mainframe-based applications to mobile, cloud, and web apps - Leverage analytics to provide advanced warning and diagnosis of problems - Use a 360-degree view of application and business service delivery - Reduce workload while also enabling IT mitigate a crisis

It’s not too late to get ahead of the mobility curve! Just be ready and be smart about your mobility strategy.

The Top Five VDI Project Roadblocks and How To Avoid ThemAn InformationWeek Webinar The promise of VDI is clear: a great user experience with lower costs and better IT control. Unfortunately, many VDI deployments fail due to poor performance, high cost-per-desktop, low reliability, excessive complexity, and limited scalability. There are 5 common issues with VDI deployments that crush user acceptance and kill ROI.

Enabling Modern Work Styles With Desktop VirtualizationAn InformationWeek Webinar Are you considering a desktop virtualization deployment on Hyper-V? Now, you can reap the benefits of cloud client computing with a single architecture to deliver VDI (pooled and persistent), remote desktops (Sessions) and Application virtualization.

Register for this webinar to learn how a single management console allows IT to deliver the right technology to the right set of users, to maximize their user experience reducing the number of vendor components that need to be integrated and limiting the number of consoles required for management to one, in most deployments.

Performance from the User’s PerspectiveSponsor: IBM Improved platforms, standards, bandwidth rates and data models mean more IT shops are taking a “cloud-first” approach to new services, keeping only select jobs in house. Cost and ROI models support this stance. But what’s often left out of the calculus is the impact on the end user. Will they be more productive? Will it be easier for them to do their jobs, process data, and share information? This webinar takes a step back and looks at the impact on the employee base. We identify 7 major gaps that most organizations ignore in pursuit of the bigger vision.

Attend this webinar and:

- Learn how to avoid getting a SaaS project dumped on IT - Help finance understand cloud CapEx versus OpEx - Identify why a SaaS app is underperforming - Avoid the pitfalls of cloud apps growing faster than your IT budget - Manage the eventual problem of Marketing developing their own SaaS apps

Are you doing everything you can to enable your employees to be productive, while ensuring that your corporate data is secure without sacrificing the experience that your employees expect from their mobile devices?

Join this webinar to:

- Discover best practices to effectively secure and manage all your personally owned and corporate owned mobile devices and endpoints - Gain an understanding of how to manage all enterprise endpoints from a unified console - Acquire monitoring techniques for compliance and acceptable use of mobile devices and endpoints

This webinar will also explore MaaS360's mobile device, application and content management solutions and how they can help organizations of any size deliver a secure mobile solution.

We will identify and discuss industry best practices that will help you to effectively secure and manage all mobile devices that access your data, network and content.

How To Deliver Business Critical Apps to Employees EverywhereSponsor: Riverbed Organizations are expected to provide the best possible experience to end-users regardless of their location, yet they must also manage their IT infrastructure efficiently and securely. So how can you save time and money while improving the end-user experience in a hybrid infrastructure environment?

Join us for this webinar where we reveal ways you can:

- Speed applications up to 100 times while reducing bandwidth consumption by 65-95% - Scale to serve twice as many users with half the number of web servers - Accelerate and prioritize mission-critical SaaS and cloud-based applications - Monitor applications with end-to-end network and application visibility

Regardless of the IT initiative, you need your application to perform its very best any time, and every time. But even applications that are responsive within the office can behave poorly and erratically over wide area networks (WAN). Join us for this educational webinar as we explore the three major performance risks to today’s business applications over distance -- and how you can prevent them from undermining your project.

However, most report that the internal SLAs they offer are relatively weak and do not have the tools to effectively manage them.

Today, most load balancers/application delivery controllers (ADCs) work on a best-effort approach and are shared by several applications. Most importantly there’s no real ability to ensure SLA.

Attend this webinar to learn why managing internal SLAs for one or more business-critical applications is extremely important to your business functions and IT organization and how you can utilize Radware to deliver, monitor, and manage application level SLA and web performance optimization even while under cyber-attack.

Hybrid Clouds: 5 Gotchas RevealedSponsor: IBM Hybrid clouds, where IT can mix and match on- and off-site infrastructure and applications based on the best fit, are rising in popularity. Among respondents to our 2014 Private Cloud Survey, 72% of those using a private cloud and using or planning to use public cloud services favor a hybrid model. However, hybrid clouds are not without problems.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

- Uncover the best security tricks and tips for hosting a private cloud - Avoid common pitfalls of hybrid cloud setups - Understand the biggest risk factors when setting up a public cloud infrastructure

Register for this InformationWeek webinar to learn more about the Top 5 gotchas that plague hybrid setups, from standards to security, and best practices to maximize flexibility.

Big Data and Analytics: Why You Need a PlatformSponsor: IBM Big data is all about delivering value from advanced analytics and a single version of truth at all scales. It’s time to discuss the growing role of data warehousing within your big data analytics ecosystem.

Register for this webinar to hear James Kobielus, IBM Big Data Evangelist, outline the major components, tool suites, databases, and industry approaches for leveraging of data warehouses within the astonishingly innovative big-data universe.

OpenStack Private Cloud: Accelerate Your ROISponsor: AMD OpenStack Private Clouds promises to deliver the utility of Public Cloud with lower TCO – but implementing production-ready OpenStack is not easy. This webinar will show how you can be successful with OpenStack today and accelerate your time to value.

Come learn about the different ways to successfully implement OpenStack Private Cloud for your business today, and gain insight on how you can minimize risk and accelerate your return on investment.

In this InformationWeek webcast, we’ll give top signs that it’s time to bite the bullet and move to a distributed architecture. We’ll also arm you with tips and tricks to make the shift as painless and inexpensive as possible.

Join this webinar to:

- Uncover the four major reasons why large organizations have chosen distributed databases over traditional relational databases; - Hear use cases in which you can distribute a relational database; - Understand Hadoop and where it fits -- and where it doesn’t -- in a distributed database strategy; - Learn how to cut through much of the marketing hype around distributed databases.

Take your organization from relational databases to a distributed architecture with this webinar.

How to Choose an IaaS PartnerSponsor: IBM Think all IaaS partners are created equal? Think again. In this InformationWeek webinar, we’ll walk through mapping your needs to key differentiators, such as VMs by API, block storage (including snapshots, restores, detaches and multiple machines connecting to a single volume). We'll also talk shop on object storage, the ability to collocate machines, and configuration management/orchestration.

Attend this webinar to:

- Learn where Amazon Web Services is the best choice and where it is not; - Discover which features you need an IaaS provider to have (that some don’t); and - Achieve a successful hybrid cloud strategy.

Register for this webinar and learn about the key differentiators that can mean success for your IaaS project -- or defeat.

What’s the True ROI of Your Mobile Security Investment?Sponsor: AT&T Does investing in mobile security really payoff? What are the benefits you can expect? Some organizations struggle to answer these questions, and as a result, fail to invest in mobile management and security solutions. However, in the world of increasingly mobile workers, a risk-rewards analysis will most likely indicate that mobile security has value.

Attend this webinar to learn:

- How inefficient mobile security can lead to competitive disadvantage - The ROI of investing in security solutions - Best practices for implementing mobile security policies

Forrester Reveals Total Economic Impact of IBM PureApplication SystemSponsor: IBM The IBM PureApplication System is a cloud application platform specifically designed and tuned for enterprise applications. IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study to try and answer the question of “how much” the PureApplication System impacts and changes the economic value of IT within one customer organization. The research is based on actual customer experience and interviews with the customer about the effects on the complete application lifecycle from design, through development and deployment, into the test and management and maintenance phases.

Join us for this webinar to:

- Gain an understanding of the generated benefits of PureApplication system - Leverage acquired IT flexibility to develop new innovations to address changing business requirements - Manage costs through enhanced application lifecycle management - Reduce risk to minimize unexpected delays

This webcast will discuss the findings of the study and the built-in expertise that enables PureApplication System to fundamentally change the experience and economics of IT.

IBM PureData System for Transactions can deliver high availability transactional data services with radical simplicity.

Join this webinar to discover how you can:

- Get your system up and running and ready for data within hours - Deploy high availability clusters and databases quickly and easily using configuration patterns - Apply OS, firmware and capacity upgrades with zero planned downtime - Support DB2 applications unchanged and Oracle Database applications with minimal change - Achieve predictable Service Level Agreements

Attend the webinar to learn how PureData System for Transactions can save significant time, effort and cost in deploying and managing high availability, high throughput transactional databases and applications.

As InformationWeek Government readers were busy firming up their fiscal year 2015 budgets, we asked them to rate more than 30 IT initiatives in terms of importance and current leadership focus. No surprise, among more than 30 options, security is No. 1. After that, things get less predictable.